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Molybdenum telluride nanosheets enable selective electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide

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H2O2 is an important commodity chemical and potential energy carrier, and is widely used for various environmental, medical and household applications. At present, about 99% of H2O2 is produced from an energy-intensive anthraquinone oxidation proc...

May 20, 2020

A new tool for cell biologists for creating synthetic cell membranes

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Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a new approach for creating synthetic cell membrane mimics. Using a new approach for "click" chemistry, researchers designed self-organizing nanovesicles...

May 20, 2020

Tougher action needed on REACH nano registrations – NGO

Chemical Watch   -   Scientific News Websites

Echa's 'soft approach' has contributed to low number of submissions

May 20, 2020

Iron nanorobots go undercover to do surveillance on living cells in real time

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Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance—their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days—using a new method developed by researchers at KAUST.

May 20, 2020

Using Nanotechnologies for Early-Stage Identification of High-Risk COVID-19 Patients

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

What if doctors could not only diagnose a COVID-19 infection but identify which patients are at the greatest risk of death before any major complications arise- One Michigan State University scientist...

May 20, 2020

Breaking down stubborn cellulose in timelapse

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Researchers at TU Graz in Austria have for the first time ever succeeded in visualizing at the single-molecule level the processes involved in a biological nanomachine, known as the cellulosome, as it degrades crystalline cellulose. The fundamenta...

May 20, 2020

New integrated device for nanometer-scale sensing

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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a new, integrated optical sensor that provides increased resolution in measurements and paves the way for fully integrated and compact optical sensors including lasers and detectors ...

May 20, 2020

Nanobowls serve up chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes -- hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers -- to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumor cells. But drugs can sometimes leak out of liposomes before they reach their destination, reducing the do...

May 20, 2020

Visualizing at the single-molecule level the processes involved in a biological nanomachine

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have for the first time ever succeeded in visualizing at the single-molecule level the processes involved in a biological nanomachine, known as the cellulosome, as it degrades crystalline cellulose. The fundamental insights thus obtain...

May 20, 2020

'Nanometrology lab on a chip' within reach thanks to new compact, optical sensor

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have developed a new, integrated optical sensor that provides increased resolution in measurements and paves the way for fully integrated and compact optical sensors including lasers and detectors for on-chip sensing platforms.

May 20, 2020

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